Chinese Journal of Catalysis ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 93-99.DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(14)60225-4

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Highly enantioselective direct Mannich reaction of seven-membered cyclic imines dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepines with acetone via organocatalysis

You-Qing Wang, Yuan-Yuan Ren   

  1. Provincial Key Laboratory of Natural Medicine and Immuno-Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, Henan, China
  • Received:2014-08-14 Revised:2014-09-12 Online:2014-12-31 Published:2014-12-31
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    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21002022) and the Chinese Ministry of Education (the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars).

Abstract:

Various substituted dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepines as seven-membered cyclic imines underwent a highly enantioselective direct Mannich reaction with acetone when catalyzed by proline. These reactions gave a range of optically active β-carbonyl seven-membered N-heterocycles with excellent enantioselectivity (93%-98% ee). With 2-butanone as a Mannich donor, the single regioselective product was obtained with 96%-97% ee. The absolute configuration of the product was assigned to be R by X-ray single crystal analysis of its derivative.

Key words: Acetone, Asymmetric catalysis, Seven-membered cyclic imine, Mannich reaction, Organocatalysis